“The Street” is modeled on an exhibition that appeared in the Venice Biennale in 1980, in which Paolo Portoghesi invited 20 architects that he considered to be taking new and innovative directions in contemporary architecture. All participants were asked to design a full-scale architectural façade, as well as organize a small exhibition of their work to be exhibited in the space directly behind the façade.

Various lines of demarcation, or even better `facades of countenance´, have always separated the personal and the public. And in the case of information, the relationship between public and private becomes a complicated set of liabilities. It´s a contract of confidentiality. By the beginning of the Twentieth Century, information control generated a visual pattern called Data Protection Pattern or DPP that helps to veil personal information in print media. Letter and numbers, ingredients of information construction, are used in excess to create a speechless and slurry form of covering text. The pattern used to conceal private information has concealed their own technological development. Only a few traces remain to provoke my speculation about their origins.